I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

Each of us has the ability to build

When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?

Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.